An overstrung archery bow. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : Their nerves were badly overstrung. From Dictionary.com.
In case such an instrument has "overstrung" wires, it can be restored to a tone that is better than that of the usual upright piano. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference
Her brother was tired and overstrung, but not suppressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
I was so overstrung that he merely had to touch me to cause a shiver. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
There was electricity in the air which acted on her overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
As far as I can learn, a piccolo, a cabinet, and a square piano were thus made overstrung. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
A strange unnatural energy was imparted to his muscular frame by his nerves overstrung with triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
And the tense strings that give the highest and sweetest notes are most in danger of being overstrung. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
They found her almost fainting from fatigue and the reaction from the overstrung tension of her nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
And in my overstrung, nervous state I could have sworn on one or two occasions that I too saw such a figure. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
It should have helped calm her overstrung nerves, but instead it seemed to be bringing the room into super-focus. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
Amaryllis laughed; she was nervous and overstrung. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Things] Reference
That was too much for Winthrop's overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
She was shuddering as a dog shudders when overstrung. From Wordnik.com. [The Beach of Dreams] Reference
She was in an overstrung and highly hysterical state. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl in Ten Thousand] Reference
He, too, was perhaps a little overstrung in the nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
Patty's overstrung nerves gave way, and she began to cry. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Butterfly Days] Reference
Lloyd had eaten no breakfast, soothed her overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation] Reference
"Your nerves are sadly overstrung," he said to the organist. From Wordnik.com. [The Nebuly Coat] Reference
My nerves were overstrung, and I lit a cigar to steady them. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Terror and Mystery] Reference
Now, Phyllis was tired with much hurried work, and overstrung. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose-Garden Husband] Reference
But it is all through every one being so overstrung, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference
The man was overstrung, had been Dick's mental note at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
Then Miriam's overstrung nerves gave way, and for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
To her overstrung nerves each darker shadow held an evil menace. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
And to Katherine, overstrung as she was, the words came as a rebuke. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
I was in such an overstrung state from want of rest and excitement that. From Wordnik.com. [Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah] Reference
Really, mother dear, my illness was simply caused by my overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Idol of Paris] Reference
All at once she broke from her half-stupor, her overstrung nerves giving way. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
The scraping sound which he made thereby grated on Chauvelin's overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference
Probably by this time she had forgotten her fretfulness, a result of overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Town Traveller] Reference
Had she, perhaps, been a little overstrung in her talk about children like organ pipes?. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
The sight that met the poor woman's eyes was too much for the already overstrung nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference
She is a nervous little creature, with an overstrung and highly imaginative temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference
She was very tired and overstrung, and they found some unguarded spot and reached the strained nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
His nerves were in such an overstrung condition that they only increased the disorder of his imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
For his nerves were quite overstrung, and no manifestation of things unknown would have surprised him now. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
Mrs. Gully was now permitted to obey her instincts; the natural result could be attributed to overstrung feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
She walked with hung head like one ashamed, the overstrung religious sense deepening her discomfiture at every step. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
In her overstrung little mind there ruled for this moment the feeling that if she was to be pinched, she would be pinched for a reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
It just fails of complete persuasiveness because it is a trifle overstrung, but nevertheless it is memorable for its artistic sincerity. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
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